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Broward County Public Schools Announces National Merit Scholarship Recipients
Today, National Merit Scholarship Corporation released the names of the first group of winners in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. More than 1,000 distinguished high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.

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Spotlight on Truth Spittahz of Miramar High SchoolAs trends go, high school poetry clubs are hot. Last weekend, 36 schools competed in the Louder Than a Bomb poetry competition at Nova Southeastern University, sponsored by Blue Apple Poetry and the Jason Taylor Foundation.

8 South Florida high schools among top 100 in nationEight South Florida high schools landed among the top 100 nationwide in rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Two Broward County schools made the top 250: Weston's Cypress Bay High was No. 243 and Pompano Beach High was 250. Both were listed among the top 25 in Florida.

Broward school board weighs cafeteria repairsBroward County School Board members grappled into the early morning hours Wednesday with how to make renovations to some of the oldest cafeterias in the district – and whether they should instead be rebuilt.

Coral Springs High School grad seeks return to OlympicsWalter Dix is gunning for gold this summer. After a standout performance in the recent University of Miami Hurricanes Alumni Invitational Track and Field Meet, it appears that the 30-year-old Dix could be on the fast track to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August.